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C J F W X P N V S N R V H O T U H F P Y L Q X S G P M K L T K B S N Q A L S T M M B G N O L B G FULBRIGHTS A P N S E S R R W Z B E CALDERON S D F P H N E I F V T H GLASS S G D Z W D C J G Y Z E COMMENCEMENT H J Z T L Z K E A H P N SAGEHENS L K W A D G P D M D T S N H C G H X Y Q L E Y S O J R T O N G U N D N Y H Z B V M C S V D K F T Pitzer College Board of Trustees Pitzer College Board of Trustees Pitzer president

College Board of TrusteesHirschel B. Abelson P’92 President, Stralem & Company, Inc. Martin B. Adelstein P’14 21 Laps/Adelstein Productions Bridget Baker ’82 President, NBC Universal TV Networks Distribution A note from Pitzer College BoardRobert of Bookman P’07 Agent & Partner, Creative Artists Agency Donnaldson Brown ’82 Brooklyn, New York Harold A. Brown Partner, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc. Trustees Pitzer CollegeWilliam G. Brunger , DM P’01 Principal, Brunger Consulting, LLC President Skandera Trombley S. Mohan Chandramohan La Cañada Flintridge, California Richard W. Cook P’13 The Cook Company Board of Trustees PitzerRichard D’Avino P’10 Vice President & Senior Tax Counsel, General Electric Company Dear Pitzer Community, Susan G. Dolgen P’97 Wood River Ventures Vicki Kates Gold P’15 Community Outreach Specialist, Jewish Family Service/Family Violence Project/Haven House As we begin the College’s 48th year, it is time to take stock of who we are and what our vision is for the future. Students come to Pitzer College Board of TrusteesGilbert V. Gonzales ’03 Senior Director, Office of Economic and Business Policy, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa College because of their identification with the ideals of the institution. There is a unique, bold, audacious and risky Pitzer identity of which Donald P. Gould President & Chief Investment Officer, Gould Asset Management LLC we are very proud and strive to communicate to all of our students, parents, trustees, friends and alumni. We are passionate about educating Susan E. Hollander ’79 Partner, K & L Gates LLP young people to find their voice and to intellectually challenge themselves so they may positively contribute to their community and their world Pitzer College BoardDeborah of Bach Kallick ’78 Vice President, Government & Industry Relations, Cedars-Sinai Health System in conjunction with our core values. Katherine Cone Keck Los Angeles, California Edward Kislinger P’07 & P’11 Santa Monica, California In this issue, we recognize the excellence of our students and welcome the Class of 2015. In addition, we feature one of our most respected Trustees Pitzer CollegeRobin M. Kramer ’75 Chair of the Board; Senior Advisor, The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands faculty members, Lako Tongun, associate professor of international and intercultural studies and political science, who shares with us his own John Landgraf ’84 President & General Manager, FX Networks Julie Mazer ’80 & P’09 & P’15 Owner/Instructor, The Home Stretch Studio role in the history of his country of South Sudan and the extraordinary changes that took place there this summer. Board of Trustees PitzerJoyce Ostin P’13 Los Angeles, California Arnold Palmer Senior Vice President, SMH Capital This past year, the College recognized and thanked two long-time faculty members who had an indelible impact upon the College. After Shana Passman P’04 & P’08 Beverly Hills, California 20 years, José Calderón retired as professor of sociology at his exuberant and moving retirement gathering. Professor Calderón has given College Board of TrusteesAnn E. Pitzer La Jolla, California his intellectual life to create a sense of purpose within an institution of higher learning and his surrounding community. His life and career Russell M. Pitzer, PhD Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemistry, The Ohio State University exemplifies one of service, thought and commitment. We are better as a College, as a faculty, as a people because of Professor Calderón’s Pitzer College BoardPaula of B. Pretlow P’08 & P’13 San Francisco, CA work. In his honor we have named two seats in the Benson Auditorium after him and his wife, Rose. Susan S. Pritzker P’93 Chicago, Illinois Alissa Okuneff Roston ’78 & P’06 Beverly Hills, California We also bid farewell to Steve Glass who, after four decades and seven years, decided that the time had come for him to retire. Professor Glass Steven R. Scheyer ’80 & P’10 Chief Executive Officer, Optimer Brands Trustees Pitzer College was one of the original 11 tenure track faculty to be hired upon Pitzer’s founding in 1963 and he is the last of the original 11 to retire from Margot Levin Schiff P’90 & P’95 Chicago, Illinois teaching. He was the convenor of Pitzer’s first College Council and instrumental in the formation of our governance system. He is, as I’m sure William D. Sheinberg ’83 & P’12 Partner, The Bubble Factory many of you know, a professor of classics and classical archeology. In his last five-year self-review titled “Reflections of Memories,” he wrote Board of Trustees PitzerShahan Soghikian ’80 Managing Director, Panorama Capital Lisa Specht Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips this moving passage that I would like to share with you: “My colleagues are young and younger and in the vitality of their youth, occasionally Eugene P. Stein Vice Chairman, Capital Strategy Research, Inc. come to me seeking what they evidently regard as calm and hoary advice to temper their passions. All of which amuses me greatly College Board of TrusteesLaura Skandera Trombley, PhD President, Pitzer College remembering my own fiery sanctimonies in the epic times of Charlie Woo CEO, Megatoys Pitzer’s beginnings. The trees on campus are full and tall now and but for the two which came with Pitzer’s original blast of landscape, CALDERON Pitzer College Board of I’ve seen them all as seedlings. My grandchildren now rumple the COMMENCEMENT Pitzer College thanks members of the Board of Trustees for their service. greenery which covers the earth and rocks in and on which my Trustees Pitzer College children sported at the same age.” FULBRIGHTS Emeriti Trustees These two faculty members epitomize Pitzer’s unique personality GLASS and standing and our commitment to our students. TONGUN Board of Trustees PitzerRobert H. Atwell Former President, Pitzer College Constance Austin P’78 Los Angeles, California SAGEHENS Eli Broad P’78 The Broad Foundations It has been my honor and pleasure to be president of Pitzer and I College Board of TrusteesHarvey J. Fields, PhD P’85 Rabbi Emeritus, Wilshire Boulevard Temple look forward to the tenth year of my presidency. Patricia G. Hecker P’76 St. Louis, Missouri Marilyn Chapin Massey, PhD Former President, Pitzer College Provida Futuri, Pitzer College BoardMurray of Pepper, PhD President, Home Silk Properties, Inc. Edith L. Piness, PhD Director & Secretary to the Board, San Francisco Museum & Historical Society Laura Skandera Trombley Richard J. Riordan Former Mayor, City of Los Angeles President Trustees Pitzer CollegeDeborah Deutsch Smith, PhD ’68 Professor of Special Education & Director, IRIS-West, Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees Pitzer 2 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 1 College Board of Trustees Pitzer College Board of Fall 2011 President Laura Skandera Trombley

Editor Anna Chang Calendar of Events Designer

Gabriela Contreras table of contents October 2010 Writers Fall 2011 27 Sustainable Entrepreneur, Portland OR Michele Botwin Raphael ’92 Photographers 1 A Note From President Skandera Trombley November 2010 Laurie Babcock 10 Men of Excellence, Pasadena, CA Jason Blagman ’12 Gabriela Contreras 4 Celebrating the Class of 2011 12 Hall of Fame Dinner, Pitzer College Joseph Dickson 12 Reggae Festival, Pitzer College Mona Ducrocq Stephanie Estrada 7 Welcome Class of 2015 24-25 Thanksgiving Break Cody Klock ’12

December 2010 © 2011 Pitzer College 8 Continued Excellence in Fulbright Fellowships

3 TreePeople Sustainable Design, Los Angeles, CA 1050 North Mills Avenue 12-16 Final Exams, Pitzer College Claremont, CA 91711-6101 12 Pitzer Students Take National Awards 17 Residence Halls close at noon for Winter Break www.pitzer.edu The diverse opinions expressed in 14 Changemaker Making History: January 2012 The Participant are those of the individual Lako Tongun 14 17 Spring Semester Classes Begin profilees and do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or the College administration. The Participant welcomes 16 What’s New at Pitzer? February 2012 comments from its readers. Updates & Events 9 Pitzer Mixer & Networking Event, Pitzer College Pitzer College is a nationally top-ranked 17-20 Family Weekend, Pitzer College undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences. A member of The Claremont 22 Class Notes Colleges, Pitzer offers a distinctive approach to March 2012 a liberal arts education by linking intellectual 16 12-16 Spring Break inquiry with interdisciplinary studies, 26 New Faculty Profiles cultural immersion, social responsibility and community involvement. April 2012 28 Faculty Publications 5 Women of Vision, San Francisco, CA 17 Women of Vision, Los Angeles, CA 32 Recognizing Retiring Faculty Members 27-28 Kohoutek, Pitzer College José Zapata Calderón 27-29 Alumni Reunion Weekend, Pitzer College The Participant is made from recycled paper using vegetable-based inks. Pitzer College encourages the use of 34 Recognizing Retiring Faculty Members 32 May 2012 recyclable and renewable materials. Stephen L. Glass 4 Senior Class Gift Campaign Celebration, Pitzer College 8 Faculty & Staff Gift Celebration, Pitzer College 7-11 Final Exams, Pitzer College 12 Commencement, Pitzer College

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he 47th Pitzer College TCommencement Ceremony was held on Saturday, May 14, on the newly named Stephen L. Glass Commencement Plaza.

New York Times bestselling author and Pitzer College alumnus Max Brooks ’94 was chosen by the class of 2011 to serve as the keynote speaker at this year’s event.

Brooks, a history major at Pitzer College, is the author of The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks.

Bennett Cross ’11 served as the senior class speaker. Following tradition, Cross was chosen by a selection committee. He comes from Sherman Oaks, CA and received a degree in multiple intelligences.

The graduating class selects a member of the staff or administration to be their honored guest and a member of the faculty to be their student marshal. This year, Dean of Students Moya Carter served as the honored guest and Professor José Calderón as the student marshal. Professor David Bachman was the faculty marshal, Chase Dyer ’11 presented the senior class gift and Gilbert V. Gonzales ’03 gave the alumni greeting.

Prior to the big day, the campus celebrated the Class of 2011 with a seniors vs. staff/faculty softball game, a party at the home of Assistant Professor Jessica McCoy, a baccalaureate ceremony and a reception at the home of President Laura Skandera Trombley. An exhibit of art by seniors, Phenogenesis: An Evolution of Expression, was on display from April 24 to May 14.

See pictures and video of the commencement ceremony at www. flickr.com/pitzercollege and www.youtube.com/pitzercollege. The Pitzer College Class of 2011

4 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 5 feature feature Welcome Class of 2015 272 first-year students are from 237 different high schools

More than 41% of the class has a 4.0 GPA or higher

55% were in the top 10% of their high school class

Senior Speaker 38% of the class is from under-represented groups Bennett Cross ’11 7% are first in their family to attend college

58% of the class is from outside California

Students from the Class of 2015 have collectively volunteered almost 75,000 hours in community service around the globe by:

• Building bathrooms with running water for schools in Africa during Chase Dyer ’11 presents the class gift to President Skandera Trombley. the summer • Creating a peace studies documentary on food ethics titled Let Us Eat • Founding schools in Kabul • Working with Seeds of Peace—promoting peace between Israelis and Palestinians • Displaying artwork at the Guild Hall Museum in New York • Engaging in an extensive research project on the history of the NRA and America’s obsession with firearms • Being awarded Awarded Royal Thai Scholarship—the highest honor of any student in Thailand • Winning Miss Teen Taiwan Dean of Faculty Alan Jones, Board of Trustees Chair Robin Kramer ’75, Speaker Max Brooks ’94, President Skandera Trombley

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Andrew Mellon Foundation New York State Summer Writers Summer Research Grant Institute Scholarships Roxanne Degens ’12 Scott Hunter ’12 Serena Acker ’11 Anja Hughes-Stinson ’11 Dylan Farrell ’12 Sara Vander Zwaag ’11 Leora Aquino ’11 Paul Kim ’11 Emma French ’13 Elise Wanger ’12 Isabel Neal ’12 Allison Backman ’11 Katherine Kirby ’03 Acadia Tucker ’11 Teach for America Fellowships Sam Brown ’11 Sarah Lee ’11 Patricio Ku ’11 Hannah Carr ’11 Terra Michalowski ’11 Benjamin Gilman International Scholar Sarah Lee ’11 James Moss ’13 Janice Cho ’11 Colin Mickle ’11 Udall Scholarship Liana Engie ’11 Lily Wiggins ’11 Harvard Model United Nations Isabella Thorndike ’12 Best Delegate Romy Feder ’11 Ted Winslow ’11 Elizabeth Pedersen ’14 W.M. Keck Foundation Summer Emma Fisher ’11 Eliot Yasumura ’11 Research Fellowship Kemper Scholarship Rachel Haney ’11 Christopher Young ’11 Peter Rominger ’14 Leonardo Flores ’14

National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution Scholarship Cody Klock ’12

8 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 9 study project she undertook through the Pitzer in Nepal to create content-based curriculum using activities based

feature Study Abroad Program. She is the first Pitzer physics major on community and student input. In her free time, she will feature to win a Fulbright. learn to speak Armenian and explore the country’s cultural preservation programs in the education system. Romy Feder ’11, a media studies major, earned a Fulbright to Costa Rica to create an engaging learning environment Colin Mickle ’11, a political studies major, was awarded a while teaching English language skills through video art and Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Laos, an poetry. Through the use of new media, she will encourage inaugural year for this program. Mickle will draw from past verbal, visual and emotional interaction. She also plans experiences to develop an interactive curriculum focused to work with a Costa Rican community on biodiversity on food, music and other content-based learning activities. conservation and film a documentary about rural landowners Outside the classroom, he will volunteer at a children’s and the conservation of surviving tropical forests. center and take Lao language classes in Vientiane.

Emma Fisher ’11, a political anthropology major and Spanish Lily Wiggins ’11, a sociology major, earned a Fulbright to minor, was awarded a Fulbright to South Korea. She intends Indonesia. She will use the processes of storytelling and to use the global food market as a lens to teach English by performance as means to teach English and apply the creating content-based, multi-sensory and communicative techniques she learned while teaching at Camp Afflerbaugh- lesson plans. She will also research changes in Korean food Paige. Additionally, she will research the effects of corporal consumption over the past 30 years. punishment on student performance in the area.

Rachel Haney ’11, a history major and German studies minor, Ted Winslow ’11 double majored in Spanish and creative received a Fulbright to Austria. She will research the ways in writing and was awarded a Fulbright to Spain. He intends to which organic farming has furthered the humane treatment build on his extensive teaching experience and will explore of food-producing animals at the University of Natural the multiple meanings of multiculturalism and multilingualism Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. in the Spanish classroom. During his free time, Winslow will explore current trends in Spanish poetry. Anja Hughes-Stinson ’11, a double major in psychology and art, won a Fulbright to Mongolia where she will teach English Eliot Yasumura ’11, a New Resources student and Marine by incorporating group projects, discussions and creative veteran with a self-designed major in religion, politics assignments. She hopes to foster cultural and artistic and global violence, was awarded a research Fulbright to Fulbright Fellows meet with members of the Board of Trustees. Steven Scheyer ’80, P’10, Eugene Stein and Harold Brown. exchange by honing her students’ English skills. As a side Indonesia. His research project, “Mapping Islam in Jakarta: project, she will engage the community in a commemorative Religious Articulations of Urban Indonesian Youth,” will mural project. investigate the ways in which Indonesian Muslim youth in urban areas negotiate their religious identities and how, in Pitzer College Congratulates Its 2011-12 Fulbright Fellows. Paul Kim ’11, an international and intercultural studies turn, the cities inform their religious views. major, New Resources student and Navy veteran, earned a Serena Acker ’11, a double major in Spanish and Sam Brown ’11, a political economy major, was awarded a Fulbright to Thailand. He hopes to inspire Thai students to Christopher Young ’11, an international environmental international and intercultural studies, received a Fulbright Fulbright to Morocco. He will serve as an English teaching develop an interest in American culture and language. He policy major, received a research Fulbright to Bulgaria. to Colombia. She will teach English and facilitate cultural assistant, building on prior teaching experiences in Thailand will use his teaching knowledge and experience to creatively His project will investigate the impact of the European exchange and communication through a pen-pal program and Ghana. Outside the classroom, he intends to expand his engage students and enhance knowledge and skills in Union’s Water Framework Directive on Bulgarian agricultural with students in the United States. She hopes to encourage knowledge of and fluency of modern standard and colloquial reading, writing and oral communication. He also plans to and wastewater treatment practices. Through archival students to challenge themselves in an interactive and Arabic and increase his understanding of Islam. study Thai art and Buddhist philosophy. research, on-site visits to wastewater treatment facilities positive environment. Outside the classroom, she will explore and qualitative interviews with farmers, he hopes to the Colombian culture through research on dance. Hannah Carr ’11, an environmental studies major, was Katherine Kirby ’03, an art history major who has worked better understand the dynamics between international awarded a Fulbright to Malaysia. As an experienced youth in independent/alternative radio since she graduated, was environmental policies and its direct impact on the Leora Aquino ’11, a biology major and sociology minor, won soccer coach, Hannah was deeply involved in tutoring awarded a research Fulbright to Italy. Her research will focus environment. a Fulbright to South Korea where she will teach English incarcerated youth at Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige. In Malaysia, on how Radio Libere independent radio stations formed in and encourage students to be lifelong learners and critical she intends to inspire students learning English by using a 1970s Italy have presented the topic of immigration. Of this year’s winners, President Laura Skandera Trombley thinkers. She will also research the effects and prevalence of content-based approach focused on topics of health and the said, “What a wonderful accomplishment! We are so proud allergies in an ethnically homogeneous population of children environment in Malaysia. Sarah Lee ’11, a double major in economics and studio art, of Pitzer’s Fulbright recipients. They represent the very best with a health care system that emphasizes preventative received a Fulbright to Thailand. She will use auditory, visual of Pitzer and stand as an example of the excellence of a medicine. Janice Cho ’11 double majored in human biology and and tactile techniques to interest her students. Her pedagogy Pitzer education.” Spanish. She received a Fulbright to Belgium where her lab- includes communicative language techniques such as role- Allison Backman ’11, who designed her major in psychology based research will investigate tandem repeats in two yeast play, songs and games. Additionally, she intends to study the With these winners, Pitzer College students and alums and social change, was awarded a Fulbright to Vietnam for genes, MSS11 and CYC8. Her research project, “Variable history of Thai art and architecture. have been awarded 130 Fulbright Fellowships. In 2010, The “Pho and Folklore: Teaching through Tradition.” Through Tandem Repeats as Facilitators of Rapid Evolution,” will be Chronicle of Higher Education ranked Pitzer first in Fulbright communicative language techniques and content-based based at the Catholic University of Leuven. Terra Michalowski ’11, a double major in history and romance Fellowships among liberal arts colleges and fifth among all instruction, she will teach English and plans to incorporate languages, received a Fulbright to Armenia. Building on a colleges and universities nationwide. traditions such as Mua Roi Nuoc into her teaching repertoire Liana Engie ’11, a double major in physics and molecular variety of teaching experiences, including her involvement at to promote cultural exchange. She also plans to take biology, received a Fulbright to Indonesia. She will the Afflerbaugh-Paige juvenile detention camps, she plans cooking classes to examine the influence of French culinary incorporate debate and role-play to encourage Indonesian techniques on Vietnamese recipes. Backman is Pitzer’s first students to express themselves and their opinions in English. winner to Vietnam. Her Fulbright project builds off an independent education

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National Society of Daughters of the Teach for America provides recent college graduates a two- year teaching commitment in urban and rural public schools American Revolution Scholar to help bridge the educational gap for students living in low- income communities. Cody Klock ’12 received the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Enid Hall Griswold Memorial Pitzer Students Scholarship. Udall Scholar

Klock, a double major in economics and psychology, also Isabella Thorndike ’12 was awarded a 2011 Udall earned a Critical Language Scholarship to South Korea and Scholarship. spent three months last summer in an intensive language and cultural immersion program. Thorndike is an environmental analysis major at Pitzer who has been recognized for her environmental leadership. After Klock also serves as a contributing photographer for the graduation, Thorndike plans to redefine “green building” Win National by becoming a design-build professional who specializes College’s alumni magazine, The Participant. in using modern techniques to enhance energy efficiency, The Enid Hall Griswold Memorial Scholarship is awarded to embodied natural resources and the cultural value of existing a deserving junior or senior enrolled in an accredited college buildings. or university in the United States who is pursuing a major in political science, history, government or economics. The 80-student class of 2011 Udall Scholars was selected from 510 candidates nominated by 231 colleges and Awards New York State Summer Writers universities. The Udall Foundation is an independent federal agency that was established by Congress in 1992 to provide Institute Scholars federally funded scholarships for college students intending In addition to the 20 Fulbright Fellowships awarded during an independent study that would explore Yin and Yang and to pursue careers related to the environment, as well as to the 2010-11 academic year, Pitzer students also received how it relates to China’s current society and culture. Moss Scott Hunter ’12, Sara Vander Zwaag ’11 and Native American students pursuing tribal policy or health numerous other national awards. majors in international/intercultural studies and English and Elise Wanger ’12 received full scholarships to the 2011 New care careers. world literature. York State Summer Writers Institute. Andrew Mellon Foundation Summer W.M. Keck Foundation Summer Harvard Model United Nations Best Hunter attended the four-week workshop to study poetry Research Grantees while Vander Zwagger attended the two-week session for Research Fellow Delegate intermediate and advanced poetry writing. Wanger attended Roxanne Degens ’12, Dylan Farrell ’12, Emma French ’13, the four-week session for fiction writing. All three are Peter Rominger ’14 was the recipient of a W. M. Keck Isabel Neal ’12 and Acadia Tucker ’11 received Elizabeth “Biz” Pedersen ’14 was named a Best Delegate majoring in English and world literature at Pitzer College. Foundation Summer Research Fellowship. Intercollegiate Environmental Analysis Summer Research at the 2011 Harvard National Model United Nations for her Grants from The Andrew Mellon Foundation. representation of Venezuela on the UN Educational, Scientific The New York State Writers Institute, established in 1984 by Rominger is currently investigating the molecular basis of and Cultural Organization Committee. award-winning novelist William Kennedy at the University at bacteria-induced male killing in insects by using the fruit fly Degens, who double majors in hydrology and politics Albany, SUNY, celebrated its 25th annual summer program. Drosophila melanogaster as a study system. He will use a and Latin American economic development, will conduct The Harvard Model United Nations Conference attracts more Under the joint auspices of the Office of the Dean of Special combination of molecular and cell biological approaches to research in equity in provision of water services in Oaxaca than 3,000 students from colleges and universities across the Programs at Skidmore College and the New York State look at the chromosomes of flies infected with the male- City, Mexico. United States and 36 counties internationally. The program Writers Institute at the University at Albany, the summer killing bacterium. offers students the opportunity to experience the challenges program features creative writing workshops in fiction, non- Farrell, a human biology major, will research effective of international negotiation and diplomacy through simulating fiction and poetry. microorganism treatment on compost. the activities of the United Nations. Teach for America Fellows French, who is currently undeclared, will conduct research in Kemper Scholar making sustainability profitable. Patricio Ku ’11 and Sarah Lee ’11 were awarded 2011 Teach Leonardo Flores ’14 was named a 2011 Kemper Scholar. The for America Fellowships. Neal, who majors in English and world literature, will conduct program is sponsored by the James S. Kemper Foundation. a research project titled “Beyond the Desert: Mapping Flores is completing this his first year at Pitzer College. Community Food.” Ku, an environmental studies and anthropology major, will be Through this grant, he will participate in two internships over teaching secondary mathematics in New Orleans. the course of the next two summers. Tucker, an environmental science major, plans to research the effects of climate change and invasive herbivores. Lee, a double major in economics and studio art, was also The Kemper Scholars Program prepares students for awarded a 2011 Fulbright Fellowship. She deferred her leadership and service in the management of for-profit and Teach for America assignment to complete her Fulbright Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar not-for-profit organizations. The program aims to promote year teaching in Thailand. She hopes to teach at a bilingual education in the liberal arts while providing students elementary school in Colorado through Teach For America James Moss ’13 received a Benjamin A. Gilman International opportunities for career exploration and practical experience upon her return. Scholarship to study in China this fall. He plans to conduct through internships.

12 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 13 Among the refugees was a small number who were allowed South Sudan and Darfur. In his early years in Claremont, he

feature to attend school, including Tongun and John Garang de devoted time to raising his sons, Tongun and Ladule Lako. feature Maboir. In 1983, Garang founded the Sudan People’s The two accompanied him to Luri in 2010. It was the first Liberation Movement & Army (SPLM/A), and he led the time he had been back in 27 years, and also the first time his Second Sudanese Civil War until his death in 2005. sons visited his homeland.

Tongun left Uganda for Kenya, where he attended high In January 2011, a referendum was held with nearly 99% school. With the help of a couple from Berkeley who had of the population voting for independence from Sudan. The been volunteering in refugee camps, he came to the United results led to the formal independence on July 9, though States in 1967 to attend St. Mary’s College of California and disputes still remain, including the Abeyi Area and the earn his bachelor’s degree. He was able to travel to Luri in sharing of oil revenues from South Sudan, which present 1975 and see his father and family for the first time since his tremendous economic potential for one of the world’s most escape. He returned to the States to enter a PhD program at deprived regions. University of California, Davis. In 1983, he returned to Juba to do research for his dissertation. He hoped to move back “The South Sudanese have what Barack Obama calls permanently and join Garang and others in the liberation ‘audacity of hope,’” explains Tongun, who is writing up his movement. However as his eldest son was about to be born, research gathered from his emotional, month-long trip. He he returned to California and completed his PhD. A month plans to take Pitzer students to South Sudan and Kenya next later, the war began, and Tongun was unable to return to the summer to assist in research on post-war reconstruction region until after it ended in 2005. efforts, effects of war and development on the environment. He also plans to travel back and forth during - summers At Pitzer since 1989, Tongun teaches international and sabbaticals, and eventually return to South Sudan at and intercultural studies and political studies, focusing retirement to contribute to development of the country. As he particularly on Third World politics and developmental puts it, “Sustainable developmentalism is my ideology.” economics. He also lectures extensively on the struggles of

Changemaker Making History: Lako Tongun

his summer marked the long-awaited Independence Day celebration of the Republic T of South Sudan and its liberation from radical Islamic rule. With Dr. Barnaba M. Benjamin, minister or information With his middle school teacher, Lino Wani On Saturday, July 9, 2011, over 550,000 people peacefully Four years later, he was one of five students who led a gathered in John Garing Square in the capital of Juba, protest against the Islamization program of the military some dancing, some chanting, some proudly bearing the government. One student leader was jailed and armed country’s flag aloft. They waited for over three hours in officials were hunting down the rest. On November 22, 1962, blistering heat for Sudan president Omar al-Bashir to arrive, Tongun and six other young boys fled the village, with no officially step down and witness the tearful jubilation of the time to say goodbye to their families. The group hid during South Sudanese, survivors of nearly 50 years of tyranny the day and traveled by foot at night so they would not be and decades of civil war that took the lives of more than detected, surviving on handouts from missionaries and 3.5 million of people. In the crowd, Professor Lako Tongun villagers. waited and wept with joy. It was a moment he had been waiting for all his life. “It was very scary,” Tongun says. “We were in the jungle and couldn’t see more than five feet in front of us. There were no Tongun was one of six children born to a farming family in roads, no paths.” Luri, a village outside of Juba. At the time, South Sudan was embroiled in its first civil war, and when he was 10 years After a week, they reached Uganda where they were old, Tongun was jailed for being a bystander to an innocent threatened with deportation so they fled to the Congo. The statue of his colleague, conversation. However, the Ugandan government was compelled to provide them shelter in a refugee camp set up in Bongo, a the late Dr. John Garang de town north of Kampala. He visited it this summer. Mabior, leader of SPLM/A 550,000 South Sudanese at the declaration and celebration - of independence in Juba

14 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 15 Joint Science Department Name Change Robert McNitt ’11 received the Pitzer College Judie and The Joint Science Department was renamed the W.M. Keck Frank Fenton Award for Athletic Achievement, was selected What’s New on Campus? Sagehen Sports Update Science Department. to compete in the Division III Football Senior Classic and was Campus Benches Decorated It was a terrific year for Sagehen sports: named to the All-Conference Football Team. what’s new at pitzer? what’s As part of the Beginning Hand Building class, Anja Hughes- Campus Renovations new at pitzer? what’s Stinson ’11, Isael Gonzalez-Goodman ’14, Taylor Kamsler The Writing Center was renovated with new wall finishes, Baseball Soccer-Women’s ’13, Emma Shorr ’14 and Elena Thomas ’14 installed furniture and added learning space. David Colvin ’11 won the Most Outstanding Male Student Rachel Eckerlin ’11 was named to the All-Conference First and produced original ceramic designs to enhance the Athlete Award from Pitzer College. He also was named to Soccer Team. appearance of campus benches. The class is taught by The Mead Courtyard renovations include new seating areas the 2008 All-Conference Second Team and to the 2009 and Softball Assistant Professor of Art Timothy Berg. and landscaping. 2010 All-Conference First Team. Additionally, Colvin was a The softball team was ranked #12 in the National Fastpitch 2011 Division III Baseball Preseason All-American Selection. Division III All-Academic Team. Each student was tasked with researching their family’s Construction on a new elevator in the McConnell Center Following graduation, he was drafted by the Seattle genealogy and choosing a ceramic tradition from their lobby was completed. Mariners. Alexis Garcia ’11 received the Pitzer College Most mother and father’s sides to merge into a tile design. They Outstanding Female Student Athlete Award. She also led individually submitted proposals to the College’s Aesthetics New Residence Hall Construction Continues Cross Country-Men’s the conference in batting average and was named to the All- Committee for approval before installation. Each student’s The men’s cross country team was named to the Division III Conference First Team and All-West Region Team. design can be seen on the fronts and backs of the three Work continues on Phase II of Pitzer’s Residential Life All-Academic Team and named an All-Academic Team by the benches closest to Benson Auditorium. Project. Builders broke ground in December 2010 and the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Tennis-Men’s buildings are on schedule to open by fall 2012. The men’s tennis team was ranked third regionally and ninth 2011 Alumni Reunion Weekend Football nationally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The 2011 Alumni Reunion Weekend was held on campus The new buildings will house 308 students, the Mosbacher/ Jacob Caron ’11 was named to the 2011 Hampshire Honor from June 10 to 12 and featured: Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism, Society by the National Football Foundation & College Hall Max Sabel ’13 was ranked tenth in western region doubles the Office of Study Abroad, seminar rooms, a digital of Fame, received the Daley Award from Pitzer College in by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The State of the College Address by President Laura photography lab, an art gallery and the Pitzer archives. recognition of outstanding athletic achievement, was named Tennis-Women’s Skandera Trombley to the All-Conference All-American Football Team, was The women’s tennis team was ranked sixth nationally by the The Distinguished Alumni Award reception and dinner It will also include a demonstration kitchen, three apartments selected as the Most Valuable Player at the 2010 Tazon de Intercollegiate Tennis Association. A reception for Fulbright Fellows for live-in staff, faculty-in-residence and a visiting faculty Estrellas and was named the 2010 Conference Offensive An exhibit by Kim Schoenstadt ’95 member. Study rooms and lounges, along with decks, Player of the Year. He also was selected to compete in the Track & Field-Men’s A master chef demonstration by Jenn Louis ’93, owner of balconies and other outdoor spaces will be incorporated. Division III Football Senior Classic. Colin Flynn ’13 won the conference 1500 meter title for the Lincoln Restaurant, Portland, OR second time. A book talk with Casey Scieszka ’06, author of All the Way to Some of the sustainable features include collection and Caron ended his college football career with more Timbuktu use of solar energy, a gray water reclamation system, completions, more yards and more touchdowns than any Water Polo-Men’s The Border Grill Taco Truck low-flow water fixtures, drip irrigation and drought- other Sagehen. The Collegiate Water Polo Association ranked the men’s The Green Parrot Party and Groove at the Grove House tolerant landscaping. Before construction began, the water polo team first in the Preseason and Week Five Men’s College employed a botanist and a biologist to ensure the Varsity Division III Top 10 Polls. The 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes an alumna/ identification, protection and relocation of sensitive flora and us who has brought honor and distinction to the College fauna in the area. through his or her outstanding achievements. Once completed, Pitzer will be able to house approximately This year, President Laura Skandera Trombley and Alumni 93 percent of its students on campus, up from 78 percent, Board President Claudio Chavez ’88 presented the award and the College expects to be awarded a platinum LEED to Deborah Deutsch Smith ’68. Smith is a professor of rating for the project,the highest designation possible. special education at the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and director of IRIS-West, More information, architect renderings, floor plans and which provides online interactive modules and other training pictures can be found at www.pitzer.edu/offices/facilities/ materials for the education of students with disabilities. construction_projects.

A member of one of Pitzer’s first four-year graduating class, Smith has been a pioneer for those with disabilities and a stalwart supporter of Pitzer College. She has served on the board since 1985 and was elected an emerita trustee in 2003. Smith authored eleven textbooks, wrote over 31 chapters and book supplements and published over 50 Alumni Board President Claudio Chavez ’88, Guest Speaker Melanie Gularte ’10, Bobby refereed articles. McNitt ’11, Jake Caron ’11, Alexis Garcia ’11, David Colvin ’11, Dan Daley ’89

16 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 17 The men’s waterpolo team ranked first in the nation what’s new at pitzer? what’s new at pitzer? what’s

Rachel Eckerlin ’11 named to Carolyn Maher spoke on April 12, part of the all-conference Reception for Fulbright Fellows Staff members Lynda Casey and Dora Garcia at the MCSI Spring 2011 series on Schooling in Lavender Graduation soccer team during Alumni Weekend Faculty & Staff Gift Campaign Celebration Mass Societies

The Women’s Tea featured an alumnae panel. Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D. ’72, Jessica Hurley ’92, Judith Selby Lange ’72, Cindy Gentry P’11

Professor Tim Berg and students decorate campus benches

Donor Recognition Dinner at the home of Eugene Stein, board member. Deborah Deutsch Smith ’68, Edie Bartnoff P’07, P’12, Matthew Bartnof ’12, Howard Bartnof P’07, P’12, Judy the 2011 Distinguished Alumni The State of the College Address by President Harris P’11, Ben Harris ’11, Jeffrey Harris ’81, P’11 Award Recipient Skandera Trombley at Alumni Weekend Abby Cheitlin at bat at Seniors/Faculty/Staff Softball Game

18 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 19 On April 20, Pitzer welcomed Harrell Fletcher, who gave the What’s New on Campus? Murray and Vicki Pepper Lecture. Fletcher, an artist working in Portland, OR, who is on the faculty of Portland State From March 31 to April 3, Pitzer hosted the Interdisciplinary University, spoke on “Making Art With Strangers.” what’s new at pitzer? what’s Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, organized new at pitzer? what’s by Assistant Professor Sumangala Bhattacharya. The On April 23 to 24, Pitzer held its annual Kohoutek Music conference gathered scholars from across the country to Festival, organized by students. The 2011 lineup included focus on how the nineteenth century conceived of and Phantogram, The Octopus Project, Beat Connection, DJ constructed nature and the relation of human beings to it. Tony Fresch, the Modal Tease String Band and The Morning President Laura Skandera Trombley provided a luncheon Birds. address. The Fourth Annual Worker Solidarity 5K Run/Walk was held On April 5, alums of the 7Cs gathered for an Alumni Power on April 23 to benefit the Pomona Economic Opportunity Breakfast at the Ambrosia Café in Sacramento, CA. Center. The event began at Pitzer’s Brant Clock Tower, featuring a mariachi band, food and speakers and a run/walk On April 7, 7C alums met at The Blue Flame Café in route covering the 5Cs. On April 20, Harrell Fletcher gave the 2011 Murray and Vicki Pepper Lecture downtown Los Angeles. On April 28, the Pitzer Art Galleries opened Phenogenesis: On April 7, Pitzer College alumni, parents and friends An Evolution of Expression, the 2011 senior thesis exhibition, gathered for an evening of food, wine and conversation with a reception. Featuring work by 15 Pitzer seniors, the at The College Club of Boston. Hosted by Francine and exhibit ran through April 14 in the Nichols, Atherton and Bill Crawford P’05, the event featured a discussion led by Lenzner Galleries. Michael Ballagh, assistant vice president for international programs, on Pitzer’s study abroad programs. On April 29, the 7C Lavender Graduation was held in Balch Auditorium at Scripps College. The event celebrates the On April 9, Pitzer hosted the first-ever Day Laborer Film accomplishments of the College’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, Festival, featuring a screening of Jornaleros en la Lucha, transgender, intersex, queer and ally graduates. Jehan produced by Colectivo Tonantzin. The event also included Agrama, founder and former president of the Gay & Lesbian speakers from the Pomona Day Laborer Center. Alliance Against Defamation, Los Angeles (GLAAD/LA), provided the keynote address. On April 12, 7C alums gathered at the Good Eats Café in San Francisco. On May 1, Pitzer alumnae gathered at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco for a panel discussion on “Women of Pitzer College alumni, parents and friends On April 13, Citalli Chavez, a graduate student at UCLA, Vision.” It was moderated by Cindy Gentry P’11, a senior gathered at The College Club of Boston The 2011 Kohoutek Festival spoke on “Immigrant Rights and the Movement of AB-540 partner at Mercer, Inc, and featured Jessica Hurley ’92, a Students.” Chavez founded Graduates Reaching for a Dream producer/writer, Judith Selby Lang ’72, an artist, and Dee Deferred, which encourages Dream Act students to pursue Mosbacher, MD, PhD ’72, a psychiatrist and filmmaker. graduate degrees. From May 1 to 5, the Field of Flags, a Holocaust memorial, Pitzer celebrated Earth Week from April 14 to 21. Events was displayed on Commencement Plaza. Created by included Low Carbon Diet Day in McConnell Dining Hall, a Mika Solo ’11, each flag represented a person killed in the trip to clean up Seal Beach, a tour of Drake Dairy Farm, a Holocaust. Trashy Fashion Show and screenings of “Tapped, Crude: The Case Against Chevron and The Future of Food.” On May 7, 5C Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) alumni gathered at the San Francisco home of Daniel Bendett ’06. From April 14 to 16, Pitzer hosted the Native American Film Festival and Speaker Series, organized by Scott Scoggins On July 12, PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media exhibition of the Community Engagement Center. The festival included co-curated by Pato Herbert and Alexandra Juhasz, professor screenings of “In the Light of Reverence,” “The Iroquois of media studies, opened at the Nichols Gallery. The Speak Out for Mother Earth” and “A Circle of Women,” exhibition consisted of 29 weekly participants modeling among other films, discussions with Native American a purposeful, complex and artful use of social networking leaders, sunrise ceremonies and talking circles. technologies and the spaces that hold them. An archive of each presentation is available on YouTube at http://www. youtube.com/PerpiTubeSpace. PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces, co-curated by Pato Hebert and Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies

20 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 21 alumni alumni

Steve Prime and Natasha Ariel Litvin just welcomed a daughter, Violet ’83 Goodwin Prime ’85 have been 1990s Owsley Litvin, into the world on August 27th, married for 21 years. Steve is the editor and 2011. She weighed in at 8 ½ pounds and Class Notes co-producer on the sitcom “Mike and Molly.” Adam Dorsay obtained his was 21 inches in length. Violet is her first Natasha is a counselor for special education ’90 psychologist license. After 15 child. students in middle and high school. Natasha years in the corporate sector, he decided to has also started a teen center for local pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology. He Hayden Hamilton married also earned a Fulbright-Hays in 2007 and Bernhard Voelkelt started his teens to have a safe and fun space to hang now works in private practice and the Center ’99 Stephanie Brewer in Spannocchia, 1960s traveled to Thailand and Vietnam to study ’79 own consulting firm that provides out. They have two children, Alexandra and for Survivors of Torture. He has been married Italy on July 23, 2011. Hema Subramanian education challenges and best practices at solutions to communities on wildfire risk and has two sons. ’99, Michael Hamilton ’02, Karina Nagin ’04 Deborah Deutsch Smith Julian. the elementary and secondary levels. mitigation. and Lena Rudnick ’04 were in attendance. ’68 co-authored “The Changing Peter Lear moved to Boulder, CO and Brian L. Carroll is a deputy Professors Jackie Levering Sullivan and Jack Education Landscape: How Special Education Belinda Valles Faustinos retired David H. Wells was added to the works at Mental Health Partners as a clinical Leadership Preparation Can Make a ’86 public defender for Santa Barbara Sullivan attended their Oregon reception in ’73 after 40 years working for the Olympus Visionary program. David assessment specialist. Difference for Teachers and Their Students ’79 County. He’s been married 21 years to August. State of California. She continues to serve has been an admired and inspiring Olympus with Disabilities,” the most downloaded article Karen Waite (Scripps ’86). They have two Ari Bass and wife, Heather, three as a member of the National Park System Pro. He specializes in in-depth photoessays in Sage Publication’s Teacher Education daughters, Natalie and Madeleine. children, mother and brother Advisory Board, CA State Audubon Governing for publications and exhibitions. ’91 and Special Education: The Journal of the traveled to Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Board and the Land Trust Alliance Board of Teacher Education Division of their Council for Allison Ray Nyssens published her first Slovenia and Austria. 2000s Directors. Exceptional Children. novel, Skating by Grace, this year. Her Matty Morin is an office manager next book, The Haunting of Evelyn Hall, is Seth Leibsohn and former Education Verna Lee and her husband, Ron, 1980s Elizabeth “Liese” Mueller forthcoming later this year. Secretary William J. Bennett co-authored ’00 for Inkling, maker of interactive celebrated their 30th wedding digital textbooks for tablet devices like ’69 Marcum has semi-retired ’75 John Waldman has a poem in The Fight of Our Lives—Knowing the Enemy, from teaching. She has been showcasing anniversary this year. , and Apple’s iPad. He’s also a licensed massage the new edition of Slake, a Los Yoon Jung Park returned to the US after Speaking the Truth Choosing to Win ’80 practitioner and lives with his boyfriend in watercolors, which are mostly inspired by the Angeles literary journal. living in South Africa with her family. She the War Against Radical Islam published by Pacific Grove coastline and flowers. Anne Turley visited Rio de Janeiro with Thomas Nelson. San Francisco. several of her best friends. In 2011, she has a new affiliation with the African Studies Celina Haigh lives on Kauai with her moved back to Wilmington, DE to care for Department at Howard University and is still Steven Fenton married Leeza Susan Hall Patron authored Lucky for husband and works as principal of St. Geoffrey Dennis and Rayen Pierattini her 95-year-old mother and reconnect with researching, publishing and conferencing Gibbons on April 20 in Beverly Good, the final novel in herLucky’s Hard Pan Catherine School. ’92 Dennis ’03 married near San Antonio, TX, high school friends. around issues related to Chinese in Africa. Hills, CA. Fenton serves as a member of trilogy, published in August 2011. Her recent articles were published by on October 10, 2010. They reside in Chicago Jane Rothfield moved to the Beverly Hills Board of Education. Leeza, where Rayen is an attorney and Geoff works Michael Philips is an Transformation, African Studies, African & Constance Blaine Van Eaton and her Philadelphia and works in who co-anchored “Entertainment Tonight” for a public affairs firm. independent consultant ’81 Asian Studies and Source. She authored A husband, Lon Van Eaton, were appointed ’76 advertising. She continues to play with her for 16 years and hosted her own talk show, developing and financing clean energy Matter of Honour: Being Chinese in South delegates to the United Nations by the band, Red Hen Stringband. Her daughter, “Leeza,” for seven years, is currently the host Ramona ‘Mona’ Ausubel and energy efficiency projects. He works Africa. Conductor & Founder of the Symphony for Shona, attends Berklee College of Music in of the PBS show, “My Generation.” authored novels No One is Here with countries such as Guyana, Colombia, ’01 United Nations. Boston and her son, Jamie, just started high Except All of Us and the story collection A Pakistan, Tanzania and China. He also co- Kipley J. Lytel married Diana Benjamin Heim Shepard co-authored The school. Guide to Being Born, both forthcoming from authored a guidebook for World Bank staff ’87 Pugh last year in Montecito, Beach Beneath the Streets: Contesting New published by State Riverhead Books. She is a contributor to The on how to design energy-efficient lighting California. Kipley serves as managing York City’s Public Spaces Brad Rothman works with the University of New York Press. New Yorker, the Paris Review Daily, One Story, 1970s programs. partner at Montecito Capital Management ’82 band Radio Eris with a CD due while Diana is litigation attorney with Snyder The Best American Fantasy and other journals. out shortly. He also works in the underwriting Jack Hill made a generous Hunter Lovins published Sue Maberry co-curated an Law. Kendall Cook ’87, Robert Clanton Climate department at Aetna Insurance Company. ’94 donation to Pitzer in honor of Tena Gonzalez Davies moved to Melbourne, in April. It was one of exhibition featured by ’86, Gordon Mize ’89, Charlie Black ’87 ’72 Capitalism ’77 Ms. thankyoujayleno.com Australia, after graduation. She married Amazon.com’s top 10 policy books. in an article titled “When Feminist and Pichai Teng Chirathivat ’85 were in Magazine Matt Lewis married Loreena White on May Chris Davies in June 2009 and the couple Art Went Public.” Her current project at Otis attendance. Matthew D. Karatz was appointed deputy 14 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. purchased their first home this April. Tena Elizabeth Coleman serves as College of Art and Design is titled “Doin’ It mayor of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of works as a child psychologist and cyber educator at Colorado Academy. in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s is the editor of , Stephanie Milner and her Economic and Business Policy. ’73 Katie Wheeler Teen Voices safety expert and is pursuing a doctorate in She was awarded both a Fulbright-Hays to Building.” an alternative magazine by, for and about ’89 boyfriend, Todd, traveled the Kim Schoenstadt was awarded clinical psychology. Syria and a Distinguished Teacher Fulbright. country on a baseball road trip. teen girls. She also runs a small consulting the inaugural Catherine Doctorow Her Distinguished Teaching Fulbright will Lori Brooks-Manas celebrated ’95 business doing research, evaluation and Prize for Contemporary Painting from the Crosby Noricks is the senior social media take her to Israel and her Fulbright-Hays to her daughter Stephanie’s bat ’78 grant proposal review on girls’ issues and Salt Lake Art Center and the Jarvis and manager at Red Door Interactive. She was Syria. Last year, Coleman won a TEA-IREX mitzvah on August 20. literacy in out-of-school time. She has three Constance Doctorow Family Foundation. profiled in the March issue of 944 Magazine. government grant to teach in Cambodia. She children, Chris, Alexindra and Jenni.

22 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 23 Kentaro Yamauchi is an artist currently living in Japan. Daniel M. Chazin and Nate Adams have reunited alumni ’02 His work was showcased at Memo Production Japan’s ’08 in Oakland, CA, and have restarted their old musical alumni booth during Photo Next 2011 in June in Tokyo. He has a new photo adventures. book, Belgian Chocolate Truffles. Brian Belot finished graduate school at Yonsei University and works Katherine Kirby has worked in independent/alternative at Walt Disney Imagineering. Ashley Woods ’07 Andrea Juckniess- ’03 radio since she graduated and was awarded a 2011 married Clinton Kyle Kemerer ’08 received research Fulbright to Italy. Her research will focus on how Radio Sara Veronica Hinojos received her MA from University of California, Hollister. a master of arts. Libere, independent radio stations formed in 1970s’ Italy have Santa Barbara, in Chicana/o. Her thesis was titled “Re-Visions of presented the topic of immigration. ‘Chico and the Man’: Chicanos and 1970s Television.”

Bennie Mackey passed the California Bar Exam this spring and was Paige Pauli married Trevor Russ on August 28 in Seattle, WA. sworn in as a member of the California Bar this August. Andrea Juckniess-Kemerer received a master of arts from Azusa Brianne Davila received a MA in psychology from Pacific University. ’04 University California, Santa Barbara. Brian Belot ’08 finished Carter Rubin received a fellowship to study Transportation Planning graduate school at Elise Salomon produced the feature filmPaper Heart, which Yonsei University and at the University California, Los Angeles School of Public Affairs. stared Michael Cera, Charlyne Yi and Jake M. Johnson. Paper Heart Hunter Lovins ’72 Steven Fenton ’92 works at Walt Disney premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Waldo published Climate married Leeza Anne Turley ’75 visited Rio de Janeiro. Imagineering. Greg Lamb is pursuing a masters in sports management at Salt Screenwriting Award. Her next project is her directorial debut Capitalism in April. Gibbons on April 20. Columbia University. titled, The Restless.

Chelsea Simms is an obstetrics services patient navigator Alanna Torres is attending Boston University and will receive a ’05 at the University of California, San Francisco Medical masters in international relations and environmental policy in 2012. Center. She also volunteers both for the UCSF Volunteer Doula Program, a program she initiated in March of 2010 and continues David Colvin was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the 27th round to help and as a sexual assault crisis counselor for Bay Area Women of the Major League Baseball first-year draft. Against Rape.

Derrick Iloenyosi co-founded As One Charity, a non- Steve Prime ’83 and Natasha Tena Gonzalez Davies ’06 profit organization that ministers to the less fortunate Goodwin Prime ’85 have Kipley J. Lytel ’87 married Diana Pugh ’01 married Chris community, particularly in downtown Los Angeles. been married for 21 years. last year in Montecito, California. Davies in June 2009. Marjorie Light released her solo album “Gingee.” She also had In Memoriam her essay “Decolonization and the Filipino Arts Community in Los Angeles” published in the book Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Robert (Bob) Albert, emeritus professor of psychology, Indigenous. passed away in May. Professor Albert joined Pitzer in 1965 and will be remembered as remarkable teacher, advisor and Katie Fate (Lindberg) married Jeff Fate on July 16. Laurel Williams scholar. ‘05, Sydney Delaney ’06, Kathleen Hall POM ’09, Hannah Locke ’07, Angela DiLaura ’06, Kathleen Brooks ’06, Carissa Clark ’07, Jessica Claude de Chérisey, a French instructor and a dormitory Chelsea Simms ’05 is an Meyers ’07 and Annie Lindberg POM ’03 were in attendance. resident during the early years of the College, passed away Brianne Davila ’04 received obstetrics services patient in Paris on June 20. Although only at Pitzer for four years, an MA in psychology. navigator. Christopher Ruth completed his masters of traditional oriental she was very much a Pitzer stalwart in those early days. medicine from Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, CA. Laura H. Tamashiro Gerum ’01 passed away due to complications from a stroke in July. Laura was a mentor, Gregory A.J. Ware attended the Foundation Polo motivator and friend to many at Pitzer. She helped establish ’07 Challenge for business. the Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS). She majored in psychology and Asian American studies at Pitzer. Ashley Woods married Clinton Kyle Hollister on August 27 in Santa Katie Lindberg Fate ’06 married Jeff Fate on July 16. Laurel Williams ’05, Sydney Delaney ’06, Kathleen Hall POM ’09, Barbara, CA. Ashley is the executive director of the Morris Squire Art Susan Hall Patron ’69 authored Hannah Locke ’07, Angela DiLaura ’06, Kathleen Brooks ’06, Foundation and Clinton is a post-production supervisor based out of Sara Veronica Hinojos ’08 “ ,” the final novel Lucky for Good Carissa Clark ’07, Jessica Meyers ’07 and Annie Lindberg received her MA in Chicana/o in her trilogy, Paramount Studios. They divide their time between Santa Barbara Lucky’s Hard Pan PO ’03 were in attendance. and Los Angeles. studies. published in August 2011.

24 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 25 faculty Pitzer welcomes new faculty faculty

Branwen Williams is a new assistant professor Ruti Talmor is a new assistant professor of media of climate science for the W.M. Keck Science studies at Pitzer. She holds a PhD and a MA Department. She earned a PhD in geological sciences in anthropology from New York University, and from Ohio State University, an MSc in biology from previously served as the Mellon Research Fellow at the University of Quebec in Montreal and a BSc, with the Humanities Center and as a visiting assistant honors, in marine and freshwater biology from the professor of anthropology at Haverford College. University of Guelph in Ontario. She also served as a postdoctoral fellow in chemical and physical sciences Talmor’s diverse work includes curating the Possible at the University of Toronto. Cities: Africa in Photography and Video exhibition, as well as organizing the international symposium Williams’ research, which she often conducts through Imaging Africa. Her upcoming publications include drilling, scuba and snorkeling collection, centers on I Came to Meet Your Absence: Western Girls, Rasta the study of soft corals in the Pacific Ocean and how Boys and Transatlantic Romance in Ghana and her data obtained from these studies can be traceable to upcoming documentary film projects include Sankofa: recent global warming. Building African Futures.

On joining the Claremont Colleges, Williams says, “I am thrilled to be part of the Pitzer community. “I am excited about the small class sizes and ability to The ethos of the College, the students, faculty and interact closely with the students while teaching.” staff, all the possibilities and potential collaborations, academically and through art and media practice,” says Talmor.

Melissa Hidalgo received a PhD in cultural studies Bryan Thines earned his PhD in molecular plant from the University of California, San Diego, and an sciences from Washington State University and his MA in English from the University of Chicago. A Ford BS in biochemistry from State University of New Foundation diversity fellow, her work explores issues York at Plattsburgh. He joins the W.M. Keck Science of contemporary Chicana/o Latina/o education and Department as an assistant professor of biology. pedagogy through Chicana/o Latina/o literature, film and other cultural forms. Thines’ research focuses on understanding how the circadian clock regulates rhythmic gene expression Her publications include Going Native on Wonder and optimizes growth in plants. He comes to Pitzer Woman’s Island: The Exoticization of Lesbian Sexuality from a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of in “Sex and the City” and her research will form California, Berkeley. the basis for her upcoming book about Mexicans, Chicanas/os and Morrissey. “This type of educational setting allows for more interactive and dynamic lectures that one cannot At Pitzer, Hidalgo is teaching English and world experience at other institutions,” remarks Thines. “I literature. “I am most excited about working in an look forward to class discussions that go beyond environment that supports faculty creativity and textbook material and also examine how our rapidly students’ active engagement with the outside world,” expanding scientific knowledge impacts daily life.” she says.

26 · The Participant Fall 2011 · 27 faculty faculty

Dan Segal (anthropology and history) co-authored “World History: Michelle Berenfeld (classics) gave a lecture titled “Nights at Round Jesse Lerner (media studies) received post-production funding from the Faculty Publications Departures and Variations,” which was published in A Companion to Tables: The Dining Room and Religious Community in Late Antiquity” at the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía for his in-progress documentary, World History. University of Regina. “The Absent Stone.” He served as film curator forCrisisss: América Brent Armendinger (English and world literature) published his Latina, 1910-2010 at the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. poems “This Is What I Have Been Made For,” “For Mount Baldy,” Sharon Snowiss (political studies) wrote “Ancient Futures: Science, Alicia Bonaparte (sociology) co-presented “Reproductive Health Matters: He also spoke at a number of venues, including the Segundo Congreso “What Is a Prayer,” “Catch and Release” and “Thieves’ Cant” in Prism Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ecology,” which was translated into Maternal Health Disparities and the Sociological Perspective” at the annual Internacional de Cine, the Getty Research Institute and the Museum of Review and LIT. Chinese and published in Modern Philosophy. meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Latin American Art.

Sarah Gilman (biology) co-authored “A Framework for Community Emma Stephens (economics) co-authored “Incomplete Credit Emily Chao (anthropology) chaired the panel “China’s Ethnic Peripheries” Jacqueline Levering Sullivan (modern languages, literatures and Interactions under Climate Change,” which was published Trends in Markets and Commodity Marketing Behavior,” which appeared in the at the annual meeting of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast/Western cultures) and students served as judges for the annual Young Writers’ Ecology and Evolution. Journal of Agricultural Economics. Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Contest sponsored by Mrs. Nelson’s Toy and Book Shop.

Melinda Herrold-Menzies (environmental analysis) published Anna Wenzel (chemistry) co-authored “Characterization and Ciara Ennis (art) received a grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance to Leah Light (psychology) was appointed Associate Editor of the journal “Muraviokva Residents and Muraviovka Park,” in Zhuravl. Dynamics of Substituted Ruthenacyclobutanes Relevant to the Olefin support catalog production for the upcoming exhibition, Synthetic Ritual. Consciousness and Cognition. She also serves on the Publications and Cross-Metathesis Reaction” in the Journal of the American Chemical She also gave guest lectures at the Art Center College of Art and Design Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and Carina Johnson (history) published “Aztec Regalia and the Society. and at Marymount College. chaired the Journal Advisory Committee of the American Psychological Reformation of Display” in Collecting Across Cultures: Material Association. Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Kathleen S. Yep (Asian American studies) published “To Reform Paul Faulstich (environmental analysis) received the City of Claremont or to Empower: Asian American Studies and Social Justice Service Excellence in Design Award for Sustainable Landscaping. He is also the Milton Machuca (modern languages, literatures and cultures) co-directed Alex Juhasz (media studies) authored “A Truly New Genre,” which Learning” and “Why Are You So Mad? Mediating Racial Conflict in principal investigator and project coordinator for an Arthur Vining Davis a video titled, “Reflexive Musings: A Country Auction Study Film.” appeared in Inside Higher Education. Service-Learning Classrooms,” both of which appeared in Democratic Foundation Grant to develop an academic program titled Sustainability and Dilemma of Service-Learning: Curricular Strategies for Success. the Built Environment. Jessica McCoy (art) exhibited “Frenchies,” which won a Purchase Brian L. Keeley (philosophy and science; technology and society) Award from the Woodbury Art Museum. Her works “Rutilus Infantia” published “Career Advice: Getting a Job in Philosophy” in Inside Judith Grabiner (mathematics) gave a talk at the Rotary Club of and “Bathroom II” were shown at the Mad Art Gallery, and “Tent” won a Higher Education. Claremont titled “Mathematics: What Are We Talking About, What Makes People’s Choice Award from the Clatsop Community Art Center. In addition, Faculty Achievements Us Think It’s True and Why Should Humanistic People Care?” she was an Artist in Residence at La Macina Di San Cresci-Greve in Jesse Lerner (media studies) authored The Maya of Modernism, Chianti, Italy. published by the University of New Mexico Press. Bill Anthes (art) participated in the colloquium Global Indigenous Geoffrey Herrera (political studies) co-presented a paper on “Varieties Modernisms: Primitivism, Artists, Mentors, which was held at the of Keynesianism” at the annual meeting of the International Studies John Milton (biology) gave a number of lectures, including “This is Your Leah Light (psychology) co-authored “Effects of Repetition on Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Association. Brain on Music: Conversations Between Performing Musicians and a Associative Recognition: Item and Associative Strengthening,” which Neuroscientist” at Scripps College; “Multistability and the Onset of Epileptic appeared in Psychology and Aging. Brent Armendinger (English and world literature) gave poetry Melinda Herrold-Menzies (environmental analysis) gave a talk on the Seizures” at the Fields Institute; “Seizure Onset in the Noisy and Delayed readings at the Queer Faculty Symposium and at the Empty Globe environment in China at the University of California, Berkeley. Nervous System” at the International Meeting on Epilepsy Research and Ronald Macaulay (linguistics, Emeritus) published “Book Drop” in Reading Series. In addition, he and students in English 128 (Writing “Neuromuscular Junction: Anatomy, Molecular Biology and Physiology” at The Chronicle of Higher Education. the Body) facilitated a Community Writing Workshop at the Foothill Jim Hoste (mathematics) co-organized the Southern California Topology the Western University of Health Science. AIDS Project. Colloquium at Pomona College. John Milton (biology) co-authored “Projective Clustering Using David Moore (psychology) presented papers on “Interactions Between Neural Networks With Adaptive Delay and Signal Transmission Loss” Michael Ballagh (modern languages, literatures and cultures) Alex Juhasz (media studies) presented “YouTube or ThirdTube: Genetic and Environmental Contributors to Behavioral Development” at in Neural Computation; “Spreading Depression Sends Microglia on co-presented “A Holistic Approach to Direct Assessment of Student ‘Democracy’ and the Digital Divide” at the University of Toronto; “Toward the annual meeting of the California Association for Behavior Analysis Lévy Flights” in PLoS ONE and “Neurodynamics and Ion Channels: Learning in Study Abroad” at the annual conference of the Forum on ThirdTube: Feminist Online Self-Reflexive Critical Pedagogy” at the and “Reintegrating Evo and Devo: A Consideration of the Problem” at the A Tutorial” and “Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: Metastability in a Education Abroad. Ontario College of Art and Design; “Publishing Learning From YouTube” annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Dynamic Disease?” in Epilepsy: The Intersection of Neurosciences, at the Media Futures Workshop and “Illusions of Equality and Freedom Biology, Mathematics, Engineering and Physics. Martha Bárcenas-Mooradian (Community Engagement Center) was on YouTube” at the annual conference of the National Ethnic Studies Harmony O’Rourke (history) presented papers on “Establishing the awarded the Project Caring & Sharing Award and California Assembly Association. Historicity of African Women and Politics in the Age of International Harmony O’Rourke (history) published “‘I am not his slave’: Certificate of Recognition for support of academic mentoring Development” at the annual conference of the Western Association of Contesting Marriage Among the Hausa on a Cameroonian Frontier, c. programs. Azamat Junisbai (sociology) received an International Research and Women Historians and “The Life and Experiences of Sa’id Ibn Hayatu, 1920-1955,” in Gender, Sexuality, and Mothering in Africa. Exchanges Board (IREX) Short-Term Travel Grant to support a second A Mahdist Leader: New Findings from the Buea Archive” at the annual wave of public opinion surveys about inequality and economic justice in conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies. Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

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Marion Preest (biology) led seminars on “Hormonal Stress Response Zhaohua Irene Tang (biology) co-chaired a panel on “Gene and the Influence of Reproductive State in New Zealand Common Expression and Signaling” at the International Fission Yeast Meeting, Geckos” at the University of California, Irvine and Loma Linda where she presented a co-authored paper titled, “LAMMER Kinase University. Kic1p Exhibits Regulated Expression and Is Involved in Pre-mRNA Processing.” Kathleen Purvis-Roberts (Keck Science Department) presented posters on “Heavy Metal Contamination at the Pomona College Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Adrian Pantoja (political studies) Organic Farm” and “Concentration of Ethylamine and Methylamine presented their paper, “Are Latinas More ‘Dovish’ Than Latinos? Salts Measured by a Particle-Into-Liquid Sampler (PILS) and Ion Evidence from the 2006 Latino National Survey,” at the annual Chromatography” at the national meeting of the American Chemical meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Society. Andre Wakefield (history) was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Norma Rodriguez and Leah Light (psychology) co-authored Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. He will spend several papers with students that were presented at the Western the 2012-13 academic year in residence at the Max Planck Institute Psychological Association Meeting and the Annual Convention of for the History of Science in Berlin, writing a book about Gottfried the Association for Psychological Science. Among the co-authored Wilhelm Leibniz. works were “The Green Eyed-Network: Exploring Jealousy in Online Romantic Relationships,” “Self-Esteem and Components of Romantic Michael Woodcock (art and creative studies, Emeritus) held Jealousy,” “Betrayal in Past Relationships Affects Current Experiences one-person exhibitions at the University of La Verne and the Pacific of Jealousy” and “The Role of Culture in Perceived Jealousy.” Northwest College of Art. He also exhibited in group shows at the Huntington Beach Art Center and Mt. San Antonio College. • leed platinum Brinda Sarathy (environmental analysis) is a Visiting Fellow at the City University of New York’s Center for Place, Culture and Linus Yamane (economics and Asian American studies) presented • 308 beds Politics. She also organized panels on “Environmental Apartheid and his paper, “The Labor Market Experience of Vietnamese and Eastern • art gallery Justice in the Inland Valley” and “Bringing Critical Ethnic Studies to European Immigrants,” at the annual conference of the Western Environmental Studies” at a conference on Critical Ethnic Studies and Economic Association. • pitzer archives the Future of Genocide. Phil Zuckerman (sociology) authored several op-ed pieces, including • demonstration kitchen Susan Seymour (anthropology, Emerita) presented a paper titled “Why Do Americans Still Dislike Atheists?” in the Washington Post; • screening room “Multiple Childcare and Attachment: A Discussion Using Two “Majoring in Secular Studies” in The Guardian and “Why Evangelicals Contrasting Case Studies” at the Lemelson/Society for Psychological Hate Jesus” in the Huffington Post. • study rooms, decks, lounges Anthropology Conference on Rethinking Attachment and Separation in Cross-Cultural Perspective. • faculty-in-residence apartment • visiting faculty apartment Laura Skandera Trombley (English and world literature, President) co-organized the Idaho Humanities Council’s Summer Institute panel • solar panels on Why Mark Twain Still Matters: Exploring the Mississippi River Books. She also presented at the American Humor Association/Mark • low-flow water fixtures Twain Circle Quadrennial Conference, the Los Angeles Institute for • gray water reclamation the Humanities, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and Talloires Network Global Leaders Conference. • drought-tolerant landscaping • opens fall 2012

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He spent 13 years organizing in his community and lauded by President Laura Skandera Trombley. Trombley developing community centers. He later earned a noted that over the past two decades Calderón presented fellowship to attend a PhD program in sociology at more than 100 professional papers, brought over $1 the University of California, Los Angeles. Through his million in grants and fellowships to Pitzer and founded PhD studies, Calderón was introduced to participatory the Pomona Day Labor Center. She also announced that research, which led to his position at Pitzer. two seats in Benson Auditorium would be dedicated to Calderón and his wife, Rose. At Pitzer, Calderón connected students to social change, influencing many graduates who now work in In his retirement, Calderón says he plans to travel to labor, education or government, like Michelle Siqueros study democratic spaces, like factories run by workers in ’95, executive director of the Campaign for College Spain, and continue his research and collaboration with Opportunity, Fabian Nunez ’97, the 66th speaker of MIT CoLab. “Now at 65, what Cesar Chavez said to me the California State Assembly, and Kevin de Leon ’03, when I was 22 is really, really true,” reflects Calderón. member of the California Senate. Two of his sons, “From that time to the present, I can truthfully say that Joaquin Calderón ’99 and José Luis Calderón ’03, also I used every minute, every moment to empower others attended Pitzer. and I did it in such a way that I would always keep my principles and values.” This year, Calderón was chosen by students to serve as marshal at commencement. During the ceremony, he was By Michele Botwin Raphael ’92

José Zapata Calderón

José Calderón gets emotional when talking about the highlights of his Pitzer career. The professor of sociology and Chicano/a-Latino/a The son of immigrant farm workers from Mexico, Studies, who retired this May after 20 years with the Calderón specializes in connecting his academic work College, recalls some of the most exciting and uplifting with community organizing, student-based service moments of creating social change with students—on learning, participatory action research, critical pedagogy campus, in local communities and beyond—his eyes and multi-ethnic coalition building. welling at times with tears of pride and memory. Calderón earned a degree at the University of Colorado, One such moment occurred in 1995 when Pitzer students then worked with Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and worked with Peter “Brother Pete” Velasco, one of the other organizers with United Farm Workers (UFW). “When original leaders of a 1965 Filipino farm workers grape I arrived,” Calderón said, “Cesar was giving a speech strike to change grapes served in McConnell Dining Hall on the importance of using your life in service to others from non-union to union-only grapes. and empowering others. The question he asked was, ‘How are you going to use your life?’ His experience with “Brother Pete was really moved. When he left Pitzer, he the UFW led him to found the Alternative Spring Break wrote a 27-page letter to the students saying that this Program at Pitzer, through which students work with farm was one of the brightest moments of his life, because the workers. students treated him as a scholar, not just a farm worker,” explains Calderón, his voice cracking. After working with the UFW, Calderón returned to his hometown of Greeley, CO, and created a school in his parents’ garage to teach English to local children.

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ideas and information. He was incredibly demanding for Pitzer special. He is one of the reasons I love my alma which I am very grateful today.” In recognition of Glass’s mater.” contributions to Pitzer, Bushnell, with her late-husband David, founded the Stephen and Sandra Glass Annual President Laura Skandera Trombley honored Glass at the Humanities Lecture in 2004. 2011 Commencement Ceremony, recognizing him as “a living link between Pitzer’s past and present,” bestowing Outside the classroom, Glass coached the Sagehens him with an honorary degree and announcing the creation soccer team and became, with his wife Sandy, a of the Stephen L. Glass Commencement Plaza. renowned host to decades of Pitzer students and faculty. An avid oenophile, Glass has held several wine tastings During his retirement, Glass will travel and continue to on campus, most recently during the 2011 Alumni research the history and monuments of Greek athletics, Weekend. his specialty. He says, “I want to read things I haven’t read. I want to see things I haven’t seen, even drink some Other students also fondly remember Glass. “Professor wine I haven’t drunk. I want to fill in the blanks. That is Glass gave me my first C- on a paper. It was actually how I am spending the time remaining.” a wonderful learning lesson,” says Nancy Hawver ’71. Michael Pearson ’06 remembers, “Professor Glass has an By Michele Botwin Raphael ’92 amazing ability to articulate the intangibles of what makes

Stephen L. Glass

When Steve Glass retired this May, it marked the end of an era. Glass, the John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics, was close, old friends as we all went through the same the last remaining founding faculty member teaching at experience.” the College. Glass joined Pitzer after he earned his BA from Pomona As classrooms and dorms were constructed around College and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. them, Glass and his ten colleagues constructed Pitzer. He received a call from a former professor about a “We had to put a curriculum in place, and we had to have position at Pitzer, recalling, “It was a snowy day in the a few basic rules in place, but outside of that, we made Midwest and I thought about the matter for 30 seconds the conscious decision not to determine the ethos of the or so and decided to apply for the job.” A force in the College until the students arrived. We could talk it out classroom, Glass evoked “invigorating terror.” Some of with them and make them part of that decision,” Glass his most memorable comments on student work include, says. “We trust our students. We have always trusted our “Sigh”; “This would be compelling if it were true” and students.” “One wonders if you are a student in this class.” Yet, this jazz guitarist voluntarily listened to hard-rock radio Glass continues, “Consider the notion of being or starting stations to ensure he could connect with his students— a new college in the 1960s. What are you going to do and surprise them with references to Slipknot. with it? There was a general awareness of social issues. When you went to Pitzer, you had to least confront Nancy Rose Bushnell ’69 remembers Glass in class, them, whether you bought them or not. It was a singular saying, “In the classroom, he opened up new worlds phenomenon. The students and the faculty became in a mesmerizing way while teaching us to question

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